Discouraging Quotes - Page 7

• The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages bigotry, hypocrisy, cant, and many another vice which the older Mother of Abominations kept clear from.

  Theodore Parker

  Christian, Mother, Hypocrisy

  "Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker: Minister of the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society, Boston, Vol. 1". Book by John Weiss, p. 374, 1864.

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• Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Time, Doe, May

  Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”

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• There is nothing in the education of the average non-scientific human being to discourage him from the habit of generalizing from little or no evidence, and worse still and far more important, nothing to discourage him from the habit of starting with a generalization and ending up with the individual, instead of the other way round.

  Gwethalyn Graham

  Average, Important, Littles

  Gwethalyn Graham (1944). “Earth and High Heaven”

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• A surefire method of setting up regular communication with your kids is to get a job in an office which discourages personal phone calls. Your kids will then call you every hour on the hour.

  Teresa Bloomingdale

  Jobs, Children, Communication

  Teresa Bloomingdale (1983). “Murphy must have been a mother!: (and other laws I live by)”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

  Michael Caine

  Editors, Lazy, Trying

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• What they are planning for us; sex, religion, money in the New World Order. Which is more corrupt? The liberal media or the multi-national corporations? Why truly big money wants your children to try drugs, even while they campaign to discourage these evils. How the brilliant scientists have come up with the proven methods to destroy your family. All you have to do is let your guard down.

  Hans von Seeckt

  Sex, Children, Media

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• I think that for a lot of actors - especially American actors - to get line readings and to be told and have your director literally act out the part for you is sort of discouraging in a way. It's a very Eastern European thing to do - a lot of directors that I worked with in Russia did that as well. And, I never took that as an insult, as many actors tend to do. To me, I think it's just offering a certain energy - offering their flavor - and, instead of trying to sort of decode and communicate it to you, they just show you their flavor of what it should be.

  Jon Bernthal

  Reading, Thinking, Russia

  "BWW EXCLUSIVE: Jon Bernthal Talks WALKING DEAD Season Premiere, Theatre Background & More!". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 16, 2011.

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• China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

  Yoshihiko Noda

  Understanding, Levels, Investment

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• There are some despotic governments so filled with a feeling of insecurity that they regard the free life of culture as a threat to their existence. ... On the other extreme is the kind of popular government which is so distrustful of all forms of distinction that it sees even in the cultivated individual a menace to its existence. Such states are likely to maintain a pressure which discourages cultural endeavor, although the pressure may be exerted through social channels.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Government, Feelings, Insecurity

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• It's discouraging how hard it is for a President to slice away large chunks of a $305 billion budget.

  Gerald R. Ford

  President, Billions, Chunks

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• Don't follow in my footsteps. Create your own legacy! Be you! Do what you do! Stay focused! Stay positive about whatever goals you want to accomplish! Don't ever let anybody tell you that you can't, because you always can. To this day, I have people trying to discourage me, and telling me I should hang it up. I call them clowns.

  Bow Wow

  People, Goal, Trying

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I believe that we will succeed in Iraq, because, one, the Iraqis want to live in a free society. And, two, that the Iraqis want to take the fight to the enemy. And people want me to put a timetable on things; that's a huge mistake. Putting a timetable on this - on our stay there in Iraq simply emboldens the enemy and discourages our friends.

  George W. Bush

  Mistake, Believe, Fighting

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• It is one of the most discouraging experiences I have ever had, not forgetting the time when I winked at the Queen Mother in London once.

  Robert Benchley

  Mother, Queens, London

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, p.118, Glendower Media

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• My mum did encourage me, perhaps most of all by never discouraging me from anything I wanted to do. If you tell kids not to, they're going to do it in the end anyway. I'd finished all that staying-out-all-night-drinking bit when everybody else came to it. Probably why I don't like alcohol today. I had it all by the age of 10.

  George Harrison

  Drinking, Kids, Night

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• Having my Canadian citizenship is a blessing at this time, and there's a part of me that feels very much one foot in and one foot out, and I know I can go back to Canada whenever. There are a lot of things that Canada does really well are the same things that are very messed up in the U.S., but I know that's a pretty self-centered stance. I don't know. It can be pretty discouraging, particularly in a city like New York. It's hard to see so many of the issues happening in the country in an up close way, but at the same time, there's a sense of positive solidarity here.

  Tei Shi

  Country, Blessing, Citizenship

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• [Glenn] Thrush's emails to [Hillary] Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta were splashed across screens in newspapers nationwide. Thrush was criticized for sharing a half dozen paragraphs of a draft of a story for Podesta to rebut. Some reporters do just that. Other newsrooms have policies discouraging or forbidding it. Thrush says he does the same for Republicans.

  Donna Brazile

  Email, Doe, Campaigns

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Ignore people who tell you 'you can't' or try to discourage you.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  People, Trying, Ignoring People

  Jeffrey Gitomer (2014). “The Sales Bible, New Edition: The Ultimate Sales Resource”, p.59, John Wiley & Sons

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• I love to try to understand first principles and be guided by that. But then, enrich them, because they won't last forever, just like everybody thought Newton had all the answers. And you probably read that, in the last of the 19th century, Harvard and others were discouraging people from going into physics because we have all the answers. And right after that, of course - we have - all this stuff is thrown out the window. And now we have whole new answers.

  Charles Koch

  People, Forever, Trying

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I understand why some women/girls/ladies don't want to be women-identified 'cuz it totally complicates your band identity and no one seems to pay much attention to the music or what you're doing. We have chosen to be girl-identified (although Billy isn't a girl!), because we want to encourage other women/girls to play music. When I was growing up, I found it discouraging to have all these women in bands not wanting to address the issue of gender...we're interested in what women are doing.

  Tobi Vail

  Girl, Growing Up, Play

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• The Internet, I'm trying to point out, is a kooks' paradise. Anybody with a keyboard and a modem can spread fear, loathing, and just plain asinine ideas among hundreds of thousands of people with the click of a button. Discouraging, but true.

  David F. Emery

  Ideas, People, Trying

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• If we try to prohibit encryption or discourage it or make it more difficult to use, we're going to suffer the consequences that will be far reaching and very difficult to reverse, and we seem to have realized that in the wake of the September 11th attacks. To the extent there is any reason to be hopeful, perhaps that's where we'll end up here.

  Matt Blaze

  Hopeful, September 11, Suffering

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I think it's interesting because the 1990s ended with the government pretty much giving up. There was a recognition that encryption was important. In 2000, the government considerably loosened the export controls on encryption technology and really went about actively encouraging the use of encryption rather than discouraging it.

  Matt Blaze

  Giving Up, Technology, Thinking

  Source: www.politico.com

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• [High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage...the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[...]Our present tax system...reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking.

  John F. Kennedy

  Effort, Risk, Incentives

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• The opposite of success is not failure. Unsuccessful efforts are not failures unless they so discourage you that you abandon further efforts to achieve your goal. Even then, the venture or effort may be a failure but you are not. Failure is an event not a character trait.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Opposites, Goal

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• If you have a dream: Number one, make a plan. And then execute that plan. And there will be failures along that line. Don't let that discourage you. Because failure is part of the process ... make the necessary adjustments and you can be successful at whatever you do.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Dream, Successful, Numbers

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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